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There have been appeals for the the global community to help Afghanistan following Saturday's deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake which the Taliban government said killed more than 2,000 people in the west of the country.

Aid group CARE USA — a member of CARE International umbrella — said in a statement that the country was already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis when the latest earthquake struck and was desperately underfunded.

"The current Humanitarian Response Plan that aims to support 23.7 million people in the country is only 33.9% funded, while needs are increasing rapidly," the organization said in a statement.
"The fast-approaching winter, combined with this new disaster, is likely to exacerbate the existing challenges," the organization stressed.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that humanitarian partners "are ramping up response efforts" while search and rescue efforts continued.

The agency said that $5 million (€4.74 million) had been approved in emergency funds and would be allocated and said further allocations "will be dependent upon additional donor resources being received, for which related advocacy and outreach is ongoing."

Pakistan, Iran and China are among the countries that have pledged to send in food, blankets, medicines, tents and funds.
According to an OCHA statement, 1,023 people were reported to have been killed and another 1,663 people injured across eleven villages In Herat province.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Taliban officials were visiting Afghanistan's western province of Herat which was most affected by the quake.
The Taliban said in a statement that the deputy prime minister for economic affairs, Abdul Ghani Baradar, and his team would visit the quake-affected region to deliver "immediate relief assistance" and ensure "equitable and accurate distribution of aid."

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